GNU Health/Access Management

Contents

1 Access Management Overview

2 Groups

2.1 Members Tab

2.2 Access Permissions Tab

3 Users

3.1 User Tab

3.2 Actions Tab

3.3 Access Permissions Tab

3.4 Preferences Tab

Access Management Overview

Like in many other IT systems, access to data and functions in GNU Health is controlled
through groups (also known as roles). A group is a set of access rights. By assigning a
user (also known as account or login) to a group, this user gains all rights of this group.

Groups
To create, edit, or delete groups, please go to the
Administration → Users → Groups section. Create a
new group or double click an existing group to open
the Groups form. All data in this form is divided into
two tabs:

Members Tab
The Groups list in GNU Health
The Members tab lists all users that have been
assigned to this group. You can add users to the group
here, or you can double click on a user to see this users details.

It is a safe practice to define all access rights of a group first and add users to the group
It is a safe practice to define all access rights of a group first and add users to the group
later.

Access Permissions Tab

The Access Permissions tab defines the access rights of

a group. There are four types of rights that can be
granted to a group:

1. Access to a certain model: This allows to grant The Members tab in the Groups
the right to read, write, create and/or delete form
records of a certain record type (or model as it is
called in GNU Health).
2. Access to a certain field: This allows to grant the
right to read, write, create and/or delete data in
certain field. While field access is not as
commonly used as model access, this option
allows you to fine tune your access permission
and to protect sensitive data.
3. Access to a certain menu item: This allows to The Access Permissions tab in the
show or hide sections in the main navigation. It is Groups form
a good practice to hide sections where a group
should not or cannot edit data to simplify the
user interface.
4. Access to a certain rule

Users
To create, edit, or delete users, please go to the Administration → Users → Users section.
Create a new user or double click an existing user to open the Users form.

Every user needs a Name (which is a descriptive name, not the user name for logging
into the system) and a Status (which is active or not active and defines if a user can log
into the system at all).

All other data in this form is divided into four tabs:

User Tab

The User tab contains the very basic information about a user:

Login: This is the user name for logging into the system and cannot be empty. It
must be unique, that is to say that you can not have to users with identical logins.
Password: This is the password for logging into the system. When entering a
password you can check the checkbox on the right hand side of the Password field
to see what you are entering.
Email: If you enter a user's email address here, clicking on the globe icon on the
 right hand side of the Email field opens a new
mail in your email client.

Actions Tab

Access Permissions Tab

In the Access Permissions tab a user can be assigned to The User tab in the Users form
one or more groups. Please be aware that not
assigning groups here will lead to users who can log
into the system but not do anything within the system.

Preferences Tab

In the Preferences tab you can set the preferred language of a user.

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